Will free anti-virus solutions protect you against common, known computer viruses? Perhaps the answer is yes. However, they may leave you vulnerable to yet-unknown threats. If you choose Windows Defender as...
What is a social engineering attack? It is a way of getting your credentials, access to your systems and your data. It is a combination of three main flaws...
PHISHING Phishing does not refer to the peaceful act of standing by a river tossing a baited hook into the water and hoping for dinner. Phishing does refer to...
Every day I read news stories about the exploits of cyber criminals and how they broke this or that. Every day I shake my head at how apparently easy...
This week, the news was bad. I do not mean the news headlines leading the television broadcasts. I mean the news that goes by, unheralded and only discussed in...
A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw in software that the vendor has yet to patch. This leaves the windows wide open for a cyber-criminal to exploit it. The cyber-criminal...
Is Cloud Security a Risk? 60% of the organizations out there don’t understand the shared responsibility when it comes to how or who secures workloads in the cloud. Creating...
House break-ins in our area have dropped dramatically but, business break-ins have increased. Because we are, for the most part, working from home rather than our offices, stores, or...
We can all agree our data is a critical asset. Imagine for one second you find yourself in a scenario where your computer crashes and you’ve lost access to...
3 Ways Hackers Obtain Your Passwords No matter what people say about passwords. Too long, not long enough, too exhausting to enter each time. We will never get away...